The Bare Essential of Meditation

(I've written another article on meditation here)

During the times before I was chronically fatigued, I was able to read much, and one of the subjects I read about was meditation.

Even then, I realized that, in order to meditate, you don't necessarily have to torture yourself by sitting in a certain position and doing nothing.

Throughout the years, I've done just that, and I've realized that it only enhances the pain in my back and neck (especially the neck). This made the orthodox way of meditation very difficult for me on the sensory level.

It was thanks to Osho, a guru from the previous century, that I realized that there is no one way of meditating. Theoretically, every kind of action can be used for meditation. There is, possibly, only one condition for an action to be meditative: to lose yourself within it.

In other words, if you're able to overcome the automatic experience of life, made by your rationality, you will then enter a state of ultimate intuition; one that will make you "lose yourself" in whatever you are doing.

Once you use intuition for this purpose, you can not only calm yourself more but also reach certain insights that may lie within yourself.

As John Lennon said:

Life happens when you're doing something else.

and when it comes to meditation, these words are extremely true. When we are successful in our meditation, the iron curtain of thought is pulled away, making you lose yourself in the source of your activity. Therefore, any action, in theory, could become meditative.

In turn, you could gain insights you wouldn't otherwise have.

For some, watching the fish swim in their confined area is as relaxing as watching planes patrol the sky and ships patrol the seas.

The more you lose yourself in an action, the more you can unlock the world beyond your mind.

Osho himself spoke a lot about the self being an "illusion", a slave-master that makes you live life as if it were a dream.

Life passes quickly when you are in "automatic mode", and much of it, quality-wise, is lost with time. Be more intuitive, and your senses will intensify, giving you more pleasure, if not entirely happiness.

One of those who rejected me, Seph, told me that she does not believe in happiness. After being alone for so long and using meditation, I now completely disagree with her.

Final note: only in solitude did I manage to find this deep sense of meditative happiness. It's the main reason I crave it so much.

It changes my mind, and brings much peace to my heart.